Apparatus for direct vision or for projection of separate transparent photographic views upon films or the like



VIEWS UPON FILMS 0R THE LIKE.

1,4371 APPLICATION FILED MAR. 30. 1922. NOV' 28,

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gcHAaLEs IJPINE, or TURIN, ITALY, 'AssIGNoa'io HAZARD DE RUYTER, or PARIS,

' FRANCE.

APPARATUS FOR DIRET VISION 0R FOR PROJECTION OF SEPARATE TRANSPARENT PHOTOGRAPHIC VEWS UPON FTLMS 0R THE LIKE.

Applicationled March 30, 1922. Serial No. 548,106.

To all who/m, t may concern. f

Be it known that I, CHARLns- LPINE, a citizen of the French Republiqand ya resident of 91 Corso Casale, Turin, Italy, have invented new and useful Improvements in an Apparatus for Direct Vision or' for Projection of Separate Transparent Photographic Views upon Films or thelike, of which the following is a specification.y l The 'present invention relates 5to an f apjection of separate transparent photographic views such as the separate views of a cinematograph iilm or photographic views on sensitized film kor upon paper, or the like. y

This apparatus consists of a hollow drum which is provided upon its periphery with apertured cells diametrically opposed, and

is mounted in such a manner as to be able to turn with slight friction, within a cylindrical box furnished with two' diametrically opposite magazines,fone of which `contains a certain number of thesev separate transparent photographic views piled or stacked one upon another, and the other of which maga zines is intended to receive those views after vision or projection; this box is also provided with two windows, diametrically opposite, of which one serves for the lighting of the views or transparencies and the other encloses or supports a lens for the direct vision or the projection of these views, so -that by communicating from the exterior an inter-k mittent movement of rotation to the drum, the viewsl fall one by one from the' feedmagazineinto the apertured cells formed in the periphery of the drum, are carried along` thereby and pass in front ot'l the windows. of

the box through which they are inspected or projected, and finally fallin succession into' the receiver-magazine. The apparatus is in vertible, that is to say when all the views have fallen from the feed-magazine, into the receiver-magazine, the apparatus can be 'inverted, the receiver becoming the `feed magazine and vice versa.

The views are preferably furnished with a metallic frame, arched to the curveof the periphery of the drum, intended to receive and to carry along the views in the course` of its rotary movement. lThis frame may be composed, for instance, of edgings of thin sheetl metal mounted on two opposite sides of the photographic view, or of an apertured metal framework or shield.l i

In order to press, against the peripheral wall ofthe carrierdrum, the separate views stacked in the feed magazine and thus to facilitate their fall and their proper placing in the cells 'offthis drum, a weight in' the form ofa plate, suitably guided, vcan vslide freely within this magazine; a similar weight arranged withinthe receiving'inagazine is connected tothe former in such a manner' as to follow it in its descending movement proportionatelyas the views fall from the feed kmagazine on to the carrier-drum; the

Weight placed in the magazine which receives the views prevents them from falling abruptly to the bottom of this magazine and thus prevents them from beingupset or assuming a Wrong position, by which they might impede the proper working of the apparatus.v f i 1.

One "form of carrying out the apparatus according to `the invention is shown *by way of example upon the annexed sheet of drawings, in which:`

F igures'l yand 2 are sectional views, longitudinal and transverse respectively, at right angles oneto the other.

Figures 3and 4; show in perspective two methods of mounting .the views on film in their metallic frames.

\ The apparatus comprisesa cylindrical box 1 closed by a base 2 and a removable lid 3. Upon this'box yare mounted two magazines 4i and 5 of rectangular section, diametrically opposite, leading to the interior ofthe box 1. and intended to receive the transparencies or views on positive film or yon paper; these magazines are each closed by a removable lid @-5" respectively.` `The box is also formed with two windows 6 and 7 diametrically opposite to one another, situated preferably upon a diameter perpendicular to that along which the magazines 4 and5 are ar` ranged; the. cylindrical box l is extended around these windows 6 7 by sleeves 6-L-7. An eye-pieceprovided with a lens 8 is mounted telescopically insuch a manner as to be able to slide axially in one of thefsleeves 6 7. lVithin the box 1 is mounted with light friction a hollow drinn 9 to which can be imparted by means of a knob 10, fixed to the centre of one of the side plates, a rotatory movement around its axis 11-11. This drum 9 is fitted in its peripheral wall, with cells or sunk portions 9 of dimensions substantially equal to the 'cross section ofthe magazines 1---5. These cells, diametricallyl opposed two and ,t-wo, are evenly spacedaround the drum 5 inthe example illustratech these cells number eight but they may be of any other number. The bottomk of each. cell is apertured, that is to say the peripheral wall of the drum, 9 is cutaway, at or opfpositeeach cell 9, with av circular window 9 having; a diameter substantially yequal to that of the windowsl" andf7 corresponding with the sleeves 6-7. A throat is thus formed at `the ybase ofthe-cell which will allow light to pass therethrough but' will; prevent the framed film or transparency from fallin`g-.into the' interior of the* drum.

The drum-9 is locked ateach one-eighth of a turn by a stud 12` carried by 'a platezspring 13 fixed to the lid Bof thefboxiland passing through a hole formed inthisflidfrFhis stud 12 engages at each one-'eighth of'afturn movement Communicated bythe. knob 10to the drum, into one offtheeight notchesor-recesses leharranged ins-af circle and equally spaced in the end wallof the drum.i

- The transparent photographic views'k upon lm, paper or the like are preferablyy fur'- nished with a metallic frame .intendedto give them the necessary thickness'and rigidity as well as a profile curved to a radiusfsubstantia'llyequal to that of the fdrum' 9./ For this purpose,'each-'view transparency@ can be fitted (Figf) upon two opposite edges with fitments 15 of thin sheet metal; each formed of a plate curved to U1 shape and betweenl which thefviewor transparency c is gripped and held; Thesemet'al iitments 15 are preferablycurved to a suitable radius in such away as to* giveto the viewortransparency the desired curvature. Iii the modification'shown in Fig. 4"; the metal iitment takes the shape of a' frame of sheet metah having` the desired curvature and-'provided on two opposite edges with iian'ges' 15 be-y tween which'the filnrview` is held, which view appears through th'ecentraiaperture 15 of the frame. With this arrangement of frame; the film view@ can be mounted in a removablev manner in' the rigid'fra'me 15, by@ causing it to slide within theianges L15.

Inside the magazine 4Vat`thei'fupper part of the apparatus;l I :arraii'ge','aseriesfofthese views fitted with their metal framingk and stacked onev upon` another; their?introductien into. place `'can be effected' from" the` in'-'v terior oftheboyl-` after 'the -Jd-runr .91 hasbeen withdrawnfandthe removable @lid-f3fhas been takenlo'f s plan'ef transparencies or' views.

Inside each magazine is arranged a weight of the shape of a plate, shown at 1G in the upper magazine and 17 in the lower magazine. The two weights 16, 17 are preferably coupled together by a rod 18 arranged exe teriorly of the magazines and connected to the weights 16 and 17 by gudgcons 19, 19 passing through slots or windows 4;, 5 formed in the corresponding walls of the magazinest, 5. i rlhe coupling rod 18 is preferably. shielded byA a protecting metal cover 20.

TheA working of the apparatus is as yfoilows: The drum 9 is intermittently rotated from the exterior-by the knob 10,- each move ment being oneeighth o'f a turn, in the direction of the arrow (Fig. 1) the then lowermost view' fv of the series piled in the magazine 4,' falls into each empty cell 9 in the periphery'of thefdrum 9 which presents itself below the-'magazineg each view is then carriedV infront of the window 7 and the sleeve 7; where it can be directly inspected through' thel lens 8' in the other sleeve 6 used asian eye-piece,v focusing being effected by thefaxial displacement of, i. e., sliding, the lens 8 nfits sleeve 6; The viewfcanalsobe projected by illuminating" it'in a suiiicient mannery through the sleeve 7f and utilizing the lens 8 'or anyother lo'pticaldevice as he projector.

By continuing the movement ofrotation of the' drum,-the views already inspected Ior projected pass oppositethe lower magazine 5 into which they fallfin successionby gravity, but in a'reverse'd position.l

All the views contained in theuppermfagazine 4; are thus collected eventuallyy inithe lower magazine 5. They can` be again inspected or projected, but in the opposite order, by inverting the apparatus; the magagine 5 theny becomes the feed Vmagazine and the magazine 4,* the receiver; .The lens S from the sleeveI 6' is also placed in' the sleeve 7 which thereupon serves as the eye-piece.

The couplingrod 18 may be of'such a length that when the" weight 1G -is at the top ofthe magazine 4, the corresponding weight 17 is also at the upp'erfpart ofthe magazine 8. In this manner the views or transp'aien cies Afalling from the drum-9 into the magazine 5 have only to pass through a comparatively small sp'aceor trajectory and there is no risk during' this short fail ef their bcing inclined or being turned orassuni'inga defective position? which would afictoiimpedethe proper working'of the apparatus.

It is tobe'uliderstood thatwithou't depart; ing from thefspirit ofthe invention; a' large number of detail modifications may be made in they eiiai'nple described and illustrated; thus the constructiono'fg thedrum canfbe modified byl giving to its'periphery aV poly'gn cna-l shape, the plane cells1 then receiving Also, thel. Vhat I claim is:

yapparatus forming the subject of this invention, portions of positive cineinatograph film no longer useful for cinema projection, these 4film-lengthsbeing suitably cut off to afford the'inore interesting views or those in the best condition. l

f lQAn apparatus for the direct vision or for the projection of separate, transparent, jlihotographic views upon film, paper or the like, comprising a cjf'lindricalbox, provided with two diametrically opposed magazines, one of which contains 'a number of thesaid separate transparent photographic views, stacked one above the other-and the other of which maoazines is intended to receive the views after inspection orv projection, a hollow drum rotatably mounted in said cylindrical box, apertured cells provided on the periphery of said drum and diametrically opposed two and two, two diametrically opposed windows in the cylindrical box, of which one serves for the lighting of the views and the other contains a lens for the vdirect vision or the projection of the views,

means for communicating to the drum from the exterior an intermittentr movement of rotation, so that the views fall one by one from the feed magazine into the apertured cells upon the periphery of the drum, are carried on by the drum and pass before the windows of the box, through which they are inspected or projected, and fall in succession into the receiving magazine.

2. An apparatus for the direct vision or for thev projection of separate, transparent, photographic views upon film, paper or the like` comprising a cylindrical kbox, provided with two diametrically opposed magazines, one of which contains `a number of the said separate transparent photographic views, stacked one above the other and the other of which magazines is intended to receive the views after inspection or projection, a hollow drum rotatably mounted in said cylindrical box, apertured cells provided on the periphery of said drum and diametrically opposed two and two, two diametrically opposed windows in the cylindrical. box, of which one serves for the lighting of the views and the other contains a lens for the direct vision or the projection of the views, means for communicating to the drum from the exterior an intermittent movement of rotation, so that the views fall one by one from the feed magazine into the apertured cells upon the periphery of the drum, yare carried on by the drum and pass before the windows of the box, through which they are inspected or projected, and

fall in succession into the receiving magazine, in combination with means for pressing' the views stacked in the feed magazine against the periphery of the drum, so as to facilitate their fall and their introduction into the cells of the drum.

- Angapparatus for the directvisio'n or fortlie projection of separateptransparent, photographic views upon film, paper or the like, comprising a cylindrical box, provided with two diametrically opposed magazines, one of which contains a number of the said separate transparent photographic views, stacked one above the other-and the other ofwhiclrmagazines is intended to receive the views after inspection or projectiomV a hollow'drum rotatably mounted in said cylindrical box, apertured vcells provided on the periphery of said drum and diametrically opposed two and two, two diametrically-opposed windows in the cylindrical box, of which one serves for the lighting of the views and the other contains a lens for `the direct vision or the projection of the views, means for communicating to the drum from the exterior an intermittent movement of rotation, so that the views fall kone by one from the feed magazine into the apertured cells upon the periphery of the drum, Iare carried on by the drum and pass before the windows of the box, through which they are inspectedvor projected, and

fall in succession into the receiving magazine, in combination with a weight, having the form of a slidable plate, resting upon the views in the feed magazine so as to press the said views against the periphery of the drum, `and to facilitate their fall and their introduction into the cells of the drum.

t. An apparatus for the direct vision or for the projection of separate, transparent,

photographic views upon film,-paper or the drical box, of which one serves for the lighting of the views and the other contains a lens for the direct vision or the projection of the views, means for communicating to the drum from the exterior an intermittent movement of rotation, so that the views fall one by one from the feed magazine into the apertured cells upon the periphery of the dr11m,`are carried on by the drum and pass before the windows -of the box, through which they are inspected or projected, and fallin succession into the receiving;- niagazine, in combination with a Weight, having' the 'forni of av slidahle plate, in eaeh of' the magazines of the box, rod means connecting' saidboth plates, the plate in the upper or feed magazine pressing` the views against the periphery of the drum, and the yplate in the loweror receiving magazine supporting the views leit one by one by the rotating drum` on its passage above said collecting magazine.

ln an apparatus as claimed in claim 1, the. mountingof each ofk the separate views in ainetal tinent having a shape and dimensions corresponding WithV those of the' cellsin the drinn.

' 6. In an apparatus as Claimed in Claim l, the mounting of each of the separate views in a niet-al iitrnent, composed of metal strips curved into U shape, and mounted upon the edge of two opposite sides of the View, these inetal strips having, and imparting to the View a curvature corresponding` toithat oi the peripheral Wall of the carrier drinn.

7. In an apparatus as claimed in claim l, the inountingofeaeh of the separate views in an aperturedI traine of sheetinetal7 of a curvature corresponding to that ofthe earrierdrinn and of a shape and dimensions corresponding with those of the' cells vof Said drum, said metal frame comprising' two parallel side flanges, folded in U shape, be,- tween which the- View isgripped in a re- InoVa-lole manner.

In` testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.A

CHARLES LPINE. Titnesses HENRIETTA DELFORNO, UMBERT FRANGISIUM. 

